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Astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin, in partnership with Google, have used artificial intelligence (AI) to uncover two more hidden planets in the Kepler space telescope archive. The technique shows promise for identifying many additional planets that traditional methods could not catch.The planets discovered this time were from

A research group have applied artificial intelligence to assess how cancers can progress and evolve. The aim is to enable medics to use personalized treatments for individual patients, thereby boosting survival rates.The new development comes from the Institute of Cancer Research London together with medical technologists from the University of

If you're bluffing your way through a game of high-stakes poker, it's a good idea to avoid shifty, nervous eye movements, which just might give your hand away.But it's not just during poker that our eyes can betray us. A recent study suggests the way our eyes move actually reveals

“Artificial Intelligence” is currently the hottest buzzword in tech. And with good reason - after decades of research and development, the last few years have seen a number of techniques that have previously been the preserve of science fiction slowly transform into science fact.Already AI techniques are a deep part

Sofia is the first robot who has been granted citizenship. Developed in Hong Kong, run by an Artificial Inteligence with a face modeled according to Audrey Hepburn’s, Sophia became a citizen of the United Arab Emirates.In an interview with The Khaleej Times at the recent Knowledge Summit, Sophia said she wants

The new system is more accurate than the old method.Spend enough time on Facebook, and you’ll likely encounter a post written in a tongue that’s foreign to you. That’s because the social network has two billion users and supports over 45 languages. On Thursday, Facebook announced that all of its

A pair of chatbots has recently done something children often do: create a secret language.
Last month, researchers at Facebook found two bots developed in the social network's AI division had been communicating with each other in an unexpected way. The bots, named Bob and Alice, had generated a language all on

Flying warehouses, robot receptionists, smart toilets… do such innovations sound like science fiction or part of a possible reality? Technology has been evolving at such a rapid pace that, in the near future, our world may well resemble that portrayed in futuristic movies, such as Blade Runner, with intelligent robots

In March 2016, DeepMind’s AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol, who at the time was the best human Go player in the world. It represented one of those defining technological moments not unlike IBM’s Deep Blue beating chess champion Garry Kasparov, or even IBM Watson beating the world’s greatest Jeopardy champions in 2011.
Yet

Predicting the Unpredictable Show
Milan Janosov, a Ph.D. student at the Center for Network Science at the Central European University, has created an algorithm with 400 nodes and 3,000 edges that determines the likelihood of characters dying in the final two seasons of Game of Thrones — the wildly popular HBO show

Google Art
Most of us are probably familiar with Google Street View; a feature of Google Maps that allows users to see actual images of the areas they’re looking up. It’s both a useful navigational feature and one that allows people to explore far-off regions just for fun. Engineers at Google

Super Robot Wars: China Wants to Wrest AI Dominance from the US by 2030China’s State Council published a new report on Thursday detailing the nation’s new plan to create a 10 trillion yuan ($1.48 trillion) artificial intelligence industry in the People’s Republic by 2030, making China the world leader in